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[TreasureDigger]

Wow, Travis! Those are some amazing stories! So glad you shared them and I'm looking forward to hearing more! I'm glad that God took care of you during those accidents.

Lisa

 

[Mike Chgo area]

In 1988 with no where else to go I asked Our Father in the name of Jesus to take away the desire to drink alcohol and I haven't had a drink since. There are more but this one is very important for me. God Bless.

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

Hi Lisa, I will write about a couple of things which God answered for me...the first was when I was about 9 or 10 years of age! My mother was a very humble and quiet woman and worked hard on the farm along with dad! Well, they had tickets from buying fencing and a few things for the farm and the store was giving a nice set of jewelry as the prize for the winning ticket! I wanted mom to win really badly, so I sit down in the middle of the Living Room floor and prayed and prayed, asking God to please allow mom to win and I would serve Him the rest of my life (a promise I didn't actually keep until I truly became saved and filled with God's Holy Spirit in 1986). I served Jesus the best i knew how over the years as a church attending Baptist, but when Baptised in the Holy Spirit of God, it makes a whole difference in a person's life of knowing how to truly serve God in Jesus' name, So it was like God using a two by four hitting me between the eyes and saying wake up and walk with Me by leaning on and trusting in Jesus during my emotional breakdown and the divorce that my ex wanted! But this was all in God's plan for me, as I couldn't serve Him like I needed to with an unbelieving and unfaithful husband trying to drive me insane! So I give God all the praise in what He has done in my life!

Now back to my prayer for mom...Well, the first ticket was a different person, who wasn't there, and you had to attend the drawing to win! The second ticket was mom's and she really won a beautiful bracelet in gold color and turqoise blue and I believe a necklace but it has been a loooooong time since I have looked at the set, still in the original box and hidden where I know not.....Ma is forgetful and when putting anything away she has trouble finding them again unless I look through my goodies and collectibles often enough and don't! I would like to show a pic of the set, but like I said I would have to go digging and don't feel well enough to do that! It is raining and 48 degrees F here today and I ache in me ole bones when it's damp, cold and very cloudy!

I have been in near accidents when I was driving, but God always protected me, although a couple of times I slid across traffic to one side and then the other a few times and then I came to a stop on the other side! One time I was driving when my ex, his mom and Susan and David (young children) were along and riding in the bed above the cab in an 10-1/2 foot Over The Road Camper on a 3/4 ton pickup while on vacation and going through Memphis TN during rushhour! I had slowed down a little to let a big truck come in off the ramp and when I did...a tire went flat and I was all over the road from one side to the other, but no one hit me and I hit no one Praise God! When I pulled to the side of the highway, my ex took over and got us to a tire repair place nearby and the tire didn't have a boot in it and was supposed to have had one like the rest! Threw the ones in the bed around but no injuries and his mom was sitting by me in the cab and she said, she was saying, Take it easy, Take it easy, but I didn't hear anything as I was concentrating on not having a wreck and didn't even remember what happened until his mom said you slowed down to let that truck in front of you and then the whole thing came back to me what had happened! Guess I was in shock for just a little while!

I have many stories like that how God helped me to know when I would see my ex, so I would be prepared and how to find a place that I wasn't sure I knew where it was! I was praying for God to help me find it and a little white car with the dealer's license plate of where I needed to go went in fromt of me from the other lane and God said, Follow that car and it let me right into the Mercury Dealership for my 77 Mercury Monarch to be checked out and looked ater!

But there are more that has happened Supernaturally that could not have happened without God's intervention to make it happen! Will tell more later, as I get tired and don't see very well most of the time! May God Bless and be with you in all you do for Him or in helping others on your job! God is Amazing and Awesome and there is no denying Him when He has shown and done miracously and supernatural things in His Child's life! Amen! Ma Betty

 

[4EverHis102399]

I love reading about your life, Ma! This thread is so neat and uplifting...we all need to hear positive stories, especially those concerning faith. I think in today's "bigger means better" world, it takes a lot to get our attention. We are accustomed to rushing around, multitasking....and this is even evident in our churches. Praise and worship is flashier than ever, technology is used during sermons, etc. I'm not saying that I totally dislike this trend in our churches, but it definately provides a different atmosphere. I wonder if we have so many distractions that we miss out on what is most important...GOD! Personally, I haven't witnessed many miracles as defined by the world, but I have to say I experience miracles everyday because of GRACE! Knowing that I am so undeserving of the pure love of GOD and knowing that he gave up his only son for me is a miracle. Knowing that I have a friend who will NEVER decieve me or let me down is a MIRACLE. When my GOD intervenes for me on a daily basis, I recieve miracles. They may not be huge, but they are real...they cannot be discounted. Just today, We finally got a call on the settlement of Travis's car. I had an amount in mind that was reasonable considering replacement cost, but was unreasonable realted to book cost. This replacement cost would allow us to pay off a debt that could be a problem later on. I have prayed that GOD would take care of the situation according to his will. Guess what, friends? Today, we were offered the EXACT amount needed to get rid of this debt. Financial freedom isn't the miracle...the fact that we recieved the exact amount we needed, an amount that really is unreasonable is the miracle. My unemplyment just ended and I have been concerned (not worried so much), but contemplating things. Loren faces an expensive surgery, the holidays are coming up, property taxes due, etc. I have been praying about what to do...obviously, now wouldn't be the time to take a new job...I would have to be off with Loren for two weeks after her surgery, so I've just let GOD have it all. He came through with my answer today. The fact that he has and is bringing me through my constant anxiety and depression is a miracle in itself! Why do our miracles have to be huge for us to be thankful and recognize what an awesome GOD we serve?

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

Thank you, Liz, for replying to my posting about what God has done in my life...but just a small portion....and, yes, he does perform little favors or miracles in our lives, for I know He has mine! That is a miracle from God, indeed, when He gave you the exact amount on your car replacement which was more than the value according to the world but not our Jehovah God! He is so awesome and great that I have come to rely on Him to meet my needs and He has ever since I've been on my own with my health, cars and home repair problems! Right now I am far in debt, but I know when the time comes to do something about paying off the credit cards that will go higher in interest rates next year, He will help me by giving me godly wisdom in how to do so....like He has all these years I've had to take care of things by myself by paying for someone to help me in many ways! No, miracles do not have to be BIG, for God works in the little things when we ask of Him and believe that He is answering our prayers but not in our will but His being done for our good and for His purpose! Our Heavenly Father knows best in what we need and how to give it to us, for every person is different even in receiving salvation...some need to be hit hard to get their attention and others are willing to come and receive Jesus as Savior and then learn of His goodness and grace through His working in our lives and studying His Holy Word which is the absolute Scriptural truth of our Savior and Lord Jesus, God's only begotten Son born without sin so He could be pure and take all our sins upon Himself, that we might be saved and with Him through all eternity!

I was going through such an emotional time by learning my ex had been unfaithful all through our almost 30 years of marriage and I didn't want the divorce because I was so ill that I didn't know what I was going to do about taking care of myself without a job and unable to work at the time....but God knew I didn't need my ex in my life to be able to truly serve Him which took awhile for me to accept but it was the best thing He ever done in my life by allowing it to happen....because believe me, I begged and pleaded for it not to happen and even blamed God....but of course I repented of that and now I thank Him for allowing it to happen, for I am much better off mentally but financially it has been a burden which God has helped me to carry and provided for me when I truly needed help! So, Liz, just know that God is with you and that Jesus loves you with an everlasting love and will never leave nor forsake you but remember always to give Him the praise and glory in Jesus' precious and holy name and have complete believing faith for without faith no one can please God! Amen! Ma Betty

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

I know these are the Supernaturally workings of God and could not have happened in any other way! While I was attending church in Faith Tabernacle near Newburg, MO, by driving back and forth usally twice a week on Thursday and Sunday nights, for this was where I was being taught and learning how to have faith in God.....Sister Story was a dear lady and was a teacher and a prayer warrior but passed away several years ago! She and the congregation prayed many a prayer for me, even that the divorce wouldn't go through, but it was in God's plan so He never answered that way.....and she would pray I would drive all the way back to St. Louis South County safely and sometimes it was like I was going in fast speed, for I was back home so quickly.....lots of times our services ran way into the early morning hours depending on the moving of God's Holy Spirit...there never was a set time and some would leave if they wanted to or had to but the services continued until His Spirit quit moving and then we left!

In one of the meetings, many gathered at the front for prayer and I needed it a lot with what I was going through both emotionally and spiritually, She took my hands in hers and prophecied that I would be using my hands for the Lord and in Jan 1987...the first poem given me by His Holy Spirit just poured out so fast that I tried writing it all down and wasn't like my others have been ever since! What I write, comes from Him and I can write or type them in an hour or two depending on the length and correcting the errors and then scanning them into the Computer! I used to write them all but now I type them as He gives them to me...but I don't do poems very often any more....because of me and not God! I have written as many as 5 or more in the same day but no longer do that, but my poetry is much longer according to how many verses He gives me! Sometimes I would quit, thinking He was finished, but would have to add more verses instead until they ended! Arriving home from the church services was a miracle without ever having car trouble, flats and etc. on the Interstate at night was a blessing indeed, for I was by myself, unless Larry and Wanda went and then they would drive the long distance and back in their Van!

Wanda's mother, Sister Opal, was healed at a church in the country many years ago of a broken leg...she went in using a cane and came out dancing in the Spirit...her leg was completely healed but I didn't see that happen, for it was before my brother, Larry, married Wanda....her family was always in church and working for the Lord and then Wanda and Larry were and then with me going with them, as I was drawing closer to my Lord and Savior, Jesus! I truly have not witnessed a healing miracle but I know that they happen because I know my Lord and there is nothing impossible with Him, for with God all things are possible! Praise the Lord, from Whom all blessings flow! Amen!

Now, what God did Supernaturally for me....just the three best ones! Jesus, Himself, came into my bedroom while I was sleeping and I woke up with a scream, as He turned away, so I wouldn't look at His face, and walked along the side of my bed (not floating) then at the end of my bed and went through my bedroom door! I said to myself, Wow, he went right through the shut door....but being still scared, I think He didn't stay because I was soooo frightened being alone in the darkness! I could see His clothing of a bright, long flowing white robe with flowing sleeves and His shoulder length brown hair! I did go back to sleep and often wondered about it even to this day why He didn't stay and comfort me? I know it wasn't satan appearing as an angel but Jesus!!!

Second one was I woke up in the night and saw a person (angel?) praying for me by the wall...she had on a Nun's habit with a white winged covering on her head! I raised up and said, Carolyn is that you (my sister's name) and then with a very bright light she floated to the floor! Again I was so scared that I turned over and went to sleep and didn't look at the floor until I awoke the next morning and of course there was nothing there! I have an Aunt that died from Uremic Poisoning while pregnant in 1946 and was a Catholic, so maybe it was her spirit, I don't know but I do know God had many praying for me, as I tried twice to commit suicide and both times He rescued me....and that is another story how He did that!

Number three is absolutely a superantural mirecle! While I was attending Angelica Tabernacle church in ILL, but while at home, I saw a shadow on my older type window one night as I was getting ready for bed, but I just through it was a shadow against the kitchen window cast by my Dogwood Tree outside of it! But with no light (maybe just the moon) there really couldn't have been a shadow! Well, the next morning I got up and Jack Frost had etched a picture of the cross upon the side of a mountain split down the middle in two parts (my window faced North and South) but if turned the window would have faced East and West just as the Bible says! Above the cross and the deep split, was a briightly shining village depicting small buildings and I know God was showing me a little part of Heaven! Now, I am not special or anything of the sort, but I had a very hard life growing up with a strict and unloving father, although I do know he loved me but just could'n show it, only by providing us a living and a home which his own father didn't do! And then being emotionally ill with a divorce that I didn't want at the time, God came to me at a time I really needed Him and showed me that He is really real, for I had asked Him, God if You are really, really real then please show me and He did and has in many, many ways!

If anyone wants to know God and Jesus and all that He has for them, then ask and He will, for He never turns away anyone if they truly ask and really want to know Him, for He says, Ask and you shall receive; seek and you will find!

I love my Lord and I will never deny Him or that He is not real....even if I am persecuted and/or tortured, for I know He will provide me the strength to endure and get through it or He will take me to heaven to be with Him forever and ever!

It has been 20 plus years and I have grown in godly wisdom and in believing faith more than I ever did in my first 50 years of reading the Bible and attending church but when the Holy Spirit reveals the truth to you, the Scriptures come alive for Jesus is the Living Word and I became very thirsty and studied, diligently, for over 20 years and wrote many poems and scripture words down on paper during those years! Praise God for His mercy and grace and Thank You, Jesus, for coming and dying for all of us, while yet sinners, that we might believe and be saved by repentance of all our sins and then traveling on God's straight and narrow way leading through the Pearly Gate into glorious heaven! Amen! Ma Betty

 

[TURNMASTER]

Lisa, Good question

Liz, it was (is always) obvious from your opening, you and Travis just speak differently. Good story.

Bible smuggling, now THAT sounds like a GOOD time. (to me anyhow)

Miracle; an extraordinary or unusual event that is considered to be a manifestation of divine or supernatural power.

There are no small miracles. It would be just as easy for God to heal a missing limb or cure cancer as to move a pebble on the side walk so you would not slip on it in your high heals or hard sole shoes. One you would notice one you would not. Yes a miracle will (almost) always be explained away as coincidence by the secular. Many things (everything) done by our Lord are miracles, however we deem to not define them as such. Truly our mere existence (continued existence?) is in itself is a miracle.

OK I asked for a sign. I will not give the specific details as to why. 12 years ago my youngest daughter was born on my oldest girls birthday. To within twenty minutes, after 14 hours of labor, and 9 weeks early. How's that, A miracle? I think so, I did ask...

Another, My father in law went to the hospital with a blood clot. (how did he know? I forget) We got a call around 8AM, he was at Cedars Sinai (LA) and had a blood clot moving towards his brain. Well, Time to pray. They checked him in and 3 hours later during more extensive testing the clot disappeared. After 8 hours of testing no clot to be found and it was there in the first tests. Problem solved, he went home no worse for the wear, other than spending 8 or 10 hours in the hospital. A miracle? I think so. I did ask...

One more, My last time in Guatemala. Two young ladies (17 and 20) one old lady (age unknown... old) 2 girls pray for old gal in a sort of private, by jungle standards, prayer room for her health. The old lady was VERY ILL, I remember seeing her going into the clinic. The water filter brigade just so happened to be installing a filter in her house (not a hut) the next day. WELL, so it happens we did not recognize her from the day before until praying for her after the install. When asked what (how) we could pray for her, we discovered she had been to the clinic the day before and prayed for after seeing the doctor and being prescribed antibiotics (which she did not take). So it happens that that same evening she felt 100% and her prayers were for thanks and she ended up praying just as much for us. Very Cool. You should have seen the ladies who prayed for her, tears ahoy, and the doc, amazed. Does this one count as a miracle? I think so... They did ask..

Good stories all of you. Truth is if you look you will see them happening all around.

For a believer proof abounds, for the unbeliever none may be found.

Remember there are no small miracles!
Jeff

 

[TreasureDigger]

Thanks for sharing all of those stories, Ma! I'm sure it takes a lot of effort for you to sit down and type it all out and I appreciate it!

Lisa

 

[TreasureDigger]

Thanks, Jeff, for sharing! Enjoyed reading them.

Lisa

 

[TreasureDigger]

All I can say is, AMEN!

Lisa

 

[TreasureDigger]

Ma, you feel free to keep on posting those stories, if you'd like! I am enjoying reading what everyone has to say.

Lisa

 

[thump7]

exellent thread.

A little story of my own.
I had a christian upbringing fell away into the world and became consumed with drugs and alcohal during and after the time I left home. I had a bit of a legalistic upbringing and always thought that there was no way for me to ever get to heaven. When I met my wife and settled down I rededicated my life to the Lord and I said the sinners prayer asking God to forgive my sins and invited Jesus into my heart. - but my out look on God had changed so much from what I was taught as a child. What I was taught was that "this is the only way, all the other churches are about God but without God and if you don't go to church here, You are going to Hell". So anyways, The night I gave my life to the Lord, I had a peace come over me - a wonderful feeling I might add. I went to bed and in the night I had a dream. I was playing on a bale stack in a field, it was a very tall stack of square bales. I fell off of it, landed on the ground below and died. In my dream I was nolonger in my body but in the spirit. I started floating up and I was looking at my body below me thinking 'hey that's me, what's happening --- Oh no, I died.' I got about 20 feet up, turned around and looked up. The moment I turned around my elevetion soared to what I would think a few miles above earth. I could see a black abyss with smoke and some orange flame off to my left, I knew that was hell. In my peripheral vision I could see a glowing gold castle-like place and knew that was heaven. But I refused to look at it - I knew I wasn't going there.

I had many thoughts go through my mind at that moment. I started crying,"Oh man, I knew this day would come, Why didn't I change. I knew I was living wrong but I didn't stop". I was so angry with myself. I was a crying, self-hating mess at that point. When I had accepted that I was going to burn in hell for eternity for the life I had led and things could not get any worse, I suddenly remembered - "WAIT, I GAVE MY LIFE TO JESUS LAST NIGHT. well, this would mean that I would go to where He is."

Lo and behold, My spirit stopped moving towards the direction of hell and started in the direction of heaven. I did not get a real good look of it, just that it was glowing gold, very beautiful and my spirit yearned to go there. I woke up at that point. My face and pillow soaked in tears, I was crying like a little kid.

I still start crying everytime I tell this. People if you are a new believer in Jesus Christ. I just want to say --- Forget all the rules, the do's and don't, You can do this and Christian need to act like that, just forget about all that crap and nonsense. It has nothing to do with any of that stuff, It is all about having a relationship with Jesus.

God bless.

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

personal relationship with Jesus, as our Lord and Savior and no one can call Him, Lord, unless truly are believing in Him, but then we do good and serve God by obeying His Commandments as best that we can through God's Holy Spirit's guidance for our good and for His purpose! Amen! May God continue blessing you with increased faith and knowledge of His Holy Word! Amen! God works with each of us in the way He can reach souls of each person and that was what your dream was about, as you needed to be shown both heaven and hell are real and know Jesus, personally, by leaning on and trusting in Him! Ma Betty

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

it helps build our faith to see God working in the lives of His Children! I needed the encouragement and I know God moved on you to write what you did, for I was talking to Him and said, God, I do all that writing which it seems very few read, and you can see not many opened my first reply stories and then only you on the second one where I knew it defitnitely had to be God working supernaturally! I guess if just one reads and it helps them, it is worth the work of serving my Lord and helping others, hopefully, but I do get discouraged and typing is difficult for me, since my eyes are not focusing well and my numb, arthritic fingers have trouble hitting the right keys and my mind remembering how to spell! I go back and proof read most of my posts, or otherwise, it would be hard for those who do read them to understand what I am trying to say! I don't lie, as I was taught never to lie by a strict father and when I found out that my ex had lied and deceived me all those 30 plus years it just devastated me! What God has done in my life is the truth with many hard trials endured and overcome to be where I am! I have many years on most of the forum members and learned most of it after 50 years of age! I pray that you and yours are blessed of God, always, and that you keep on growing stronger and stronger in faith and in your work for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Amen! Ma betty

 

[TreasureDigger]

I don't usually look to see how many views a post has and the reason for that is because I know that more often than not, I just click on the original and scroll down through all the others to read them. Seldom do I single out individual replies to click on. I figure most others do the same. So the number of views, aside from the first/original post, are probably FAR from showing the accurate number of times it has been viewed. I read ALMOST every single post (when I check the forum regularly) but I don't always have time to reply to each one. When I do reply, my replies aren't as long as they used to be. If it has been several days since I've been to the forum, there is no way I have time to read everything, much less reply to all the posts, but even when I don't get over here as often as I should, yall are still on my mind and in my prayers. You just keep right on keeping on, Ma!

Lisa

 

[TreasureDigger]

Amen! And awesome story! Thanks for sharing it with us!

Lisa

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

that more people view and answer the very first post in a thread but I guess I like to hear feed back on my posts and most of the time I don't get any....but I do understand I have more time on my hands than most do to spend time typing on the forum! May God Bless and may you keep on, keepin' on with faith in Jesus like you do have! Amen! Ma Betty

 

[TreasureDigger]

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[Ma Betty in MO]

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